ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1922, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE EMPIRE. GOING UP. This well-known J. C. Williamson Comic Opera will be staged at the Empire Theatre on Monday night next, February 13, by Mr. D. B. O’Connor and his talented comic opera company, for pne night only. The season will be strictly limited to three nights. The re* cent J. C. Williamson success which has created quite a sensation in the musical world, “The Lilac Domino,”-will be offered on Tuesday night., and on Wednesday night for the farewell performance of the season, “Katinka,” the wellknown J. C. Williamson Light Opera will be offered. Mr. D. B. O’Connor and Miss Ida Leggatt, will head a big caste, which includes a full ballet, chorus, and orchestra, beautiful scenery and magnificent wardrobe. The music of the three operas is too well known to need much mention in our columns, and the plot of “Going Up” as unique in its dealing with a flight in the air, a race between Robert Street (author) and Gallaird (aviator), in which Street, after much excitement succeeds in winning. Box plans for the season are now on view at Collier’s, where seats may be reserved without extra charge. EVERYBODY’S. LAST NIGHT OF “ALL DOLLED UP,” AND “THE LITTLE FOOL.” Gladys Walton, the sensational hit of “Pink Tights” and other clever screen stories is at her best in “All Dolled Up,” which local fans will see at Everybody’s Theatre, for the last time tonight. The story deals with a little shop girl whose fairy prince is a chauffeur. Love interest and big dramatic moments are outstanding features of the production, which was produced for Universal by Rollin Sturgeon. Jack London’s “The Little Fool” is also on this bill. Paula liked moonshine society for she longed to be adored by other men than her husband and under the soft rays of the big moon she carried on many an innocent flirtation until —and in this fascinating story of Jack London’s, May Allison as the pretty Paula brings to the screen all that thrill which the famous author put in “The Little Lady of the Big House,” from which “The Little Fool” was adapted by Metro.

THE PEOPLE’S. PAULINE FREDERICK IN “WOMAN IN ROOM 13.” From the luxurious apartment of Dick Turner a muffled shot was heard. The men on the dictaphone in the apartment below heard the murderous report. A rush was made to the rooms above where Paul Ramsey was found, smoking gun in hand. There lay the body of Dick Turner. But the woman was gone! What woman? The husband thought he knew and had taken his revenge. The former husband thought he knew—and uttered his suspicion. All were wrong! Who was the woman in room 13 when Dick Turner was shot? “Woman in Room 13” commences tonight. The bill includes gazettes, comedy, travel, and “The Fatal Sign” No. 3. A big special Tom Mix production, “The Big Town Roundups,” is notified for Tuesday and Wednesday next.

THE EMPIRE. “REPUTATION” TO-NIGHT. To-night, to-morrow and Saturday at the Empire the big Universal special attraction, “Reputation,” starring Priscilla Dean, will be screened. It is a wonderful dramatic play of a world famous actress and her neglected daughter. Up the road of fame—siowiy, carefully. Down the ladder of obscurity —rapidly, passionately. That was the course of Laura Figlan, the radiantly beautiful actress who became the most talked of creature in Europe; for whom all the world paid the fiddler that she might dance; for whom men died wftnout honor; for whom a child prkyed. Laura Figlan was the vortex of a|mad and profligate whirl of pleasure in London on the eve of her departure for Broadway, where she wa§. billed to appear in her biggest London success. “I'll sail when I happen to like the color scheme in the imperial •salon on the Odriatie,” she cabled, while the wine flowed to the extravagant toasts of her gay companions. Two weeks later she staggered through the London slums —hungry, cold, sick, unrecognised, and to all the world nothing but a withered flower of the pavement. But in New York the show went on. In the stellar role, which had won its creator the plaudits of all Europe, was a girl who was supposed to be the great Laura Figlan, but was not. Who was she? If you wish to know be at the Empire to-night, when “Reputation” i> showing. Priscella Dean plays a dual role in this startling drama, ami the production comes here heralded as the most unusual story ever told in light and shadow.